MICA starts online service for MPhil students

With an aim to help students get opinions from field experts, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) has launched MiDOCS - an online doctoral thesis facilitation service in the communication discipline.

The service has been designed keeping in mind MPhil and PhD students, aiming to help them complete their doctoral thesis. It will recognise the role and importance of the research supervisor and assist students with consultations, support and feedback.

The service will also help students choose and review a subject for research and find further information. The students will be able to understand and frame questions and hypothesis and be trained in the methodology to write dissertations.

The facility will be available in seven different categories including topic and title, sources of information, review of literature, research methodology, data analysis and interpretation, dissertation writing and library facilitation. The information will be made available online by clicking on the relevant categories.

"The idea is to tap a larger section of intellectuals and experts in  society. At times, the students are in a quandary and this platform will help them clarify their doubts and reach out to more people," explained Prof Pradeep Krishnatray, dean, research.

With MICA having an online library, the students who need reference material will also be able to get help from a wide variety of books. "We have an exhaustive list and students can write to us and we will provide them with library help and other resource material," he added. 

The service, which is free of cost, is open to all students. "Many have shown interest and we would welcome questions from students needing help from anywhere in the country or even abroad," he said.